[Curiosities] "I hope we find evidence that there are liquid oceans on Jupiter"

[Mr.Hacker]

 

The Juice Probe lifts off today for Jupiter with a long journey of nearly eight years ahead of it. Ignacio Tanco, responsible for operations of the Juice mission, has been on Radio Euskadi.
The Juice Probe takes off today at 2:15 p.m. for Jupiter with a long journey of almost eight years ahead.

It will do so from French Guiana with the mission of finding out if the moons of the great gaseous planet harbor habitable oceans under the ice sheet that covers them.

The objective of the mission is to find out the state of the water in the frozen oceans of Jupiter's moons, since from the earth you can see the first layer of ice that covers them, but it is not possible to know if under the crust water is in a liquid or solid state.

After three years of work collecting data, Juice will focus on Ganymede, where it will impact to end the mission.

Ignacio Tanco, responsible for operations of the Juice mission, told Radio Euskadi's "Boulevard" how complicated it is to take off a probe that has only one second a day to do it, "today we are very busy... "We are in the countdown phase. Now everything is green to start and all the conditions are in place for the launch to Jupiter."

He affirmed that they are ready, "more than tension now is anticipation. With everything prepared, the tension exists, but not like in previous days." But until 2031 they will not reach Jupiter and "once they arrive there we will have 3 years in which we will tour the moons in a very low orbit and see if there are oceans."

It is a "mission is exploration, we have great uncertainties to see if there is liquid water. I hope we find evidence that there are liquid oceans on Jupiter."

 

https://www.eitb.eus/es/radio/radio-euskadi/programas/boulevard/detalle/9170799/lanzamiento-a-jupiter-espero-que-encontremos-evidencia-de-que-hay-oceanos-liquidos-en-jupiter/